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• s  marked by great carelessness
  slipshod spelling

• Someone was needed who could plan and plead reorganization in the slipshod War Department, set up administrations for the colonies newly-won from Spain.
• Other national teams, whose players often compete together from the time they try on their first size 2s, are now so good that they can't expect to win with such slipshod .
• The $18,200 could have gone unrecorded because of slipshod accounting, and the kickback allegation was hearsay.

• haphazard
• slapdash
• sloppy

News & Articles

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• Chinatown building blasted apart by 'bug bombs' violated subdivision rules, used illegal gas and plumbing lines
  The Chinatown building blasted apart by pesticide bombs had been illegally subdivided and was using illegal gas and plumbing lines, city building officials said. The slipshod structure at 17 Pike Street — which went up in a fiery explosion just before 1 p.m. yesterday, injuring at least nine people — has...
  July 12, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Mark Twain in FOXNews
  Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp,Twain wrote of German, adding that a person "is washed about in it, hither and thither, in the most helpless way......"
• Jacqui Smith in Workpermit.com
  The new civil penalties are a more effective way of dealing with employers who use slipshod or exploitative recruitment methods,said Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
• St Jerome in KFOXtv.com
  The whole system is pretty slipshod,says Dr. Jerome Kassirer, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and author of On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health. "When you're reading an...